In this world, things are often unclear, often you are afraid of what you are afraid of, and it is from an angle you can't imagine to stab at the weakest place of your defense. Just when Zhu Yanxi was looking for someone to discuss the edict of Tianqi, on the evening of the tenth day of the first month of May, someone took advantage of the chaos after the disaster to post a lot of tabloids outside the major yamen in the capital, the content of which was to count the wrong things that Tianqi had done in the past year, from the abolition of the cabinet to the continuous conquest of the people and money, resulting in the warning of the heavens to the occurrence of disasters.

When Yang Gongchun angrily showed the tabloid to Tianqi, Tianqi was thinking about how to phrase this edict of guilt, and when he opened the tabloid and looked at it, Tianqi immediately smiled and said, "It's just right, there is a draft of the edict of guilt." After speaking, he opened it and looked at it carefully.

The tabloid counted in detail the twelve major mistakes made by Tianqi in the past year: selling the title is said to be similar to Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling in the late Eastern Han Dynasty selling official titles, and the division of the country is just around the corner in the long run; Forcing large households to sell their land and forcing everyone to pay taxes is against the ancestral system and belongs to the mind of the wealth obsessed; Immigration is to upset people from their homes, resulting in complaints; The abolition of the cabinet and the merger of the ministries are unconventional and centralized; Privately opening the royal store is to compete with the people for profit; Forcing officials to accept the raid is a servitude to the scholars and a degrading to Sven; Constantly using troops and building border walls is a great achievement, which will make the soldiers suffer one after another, which is the way to destroy the country; Forming an alliance with the Mongols and negotiating with the Jurchens was an insult to the national dignity of elevating the status of the slave chieftain.

Wang Tiqian, Yang Gongchun, Tan Jing and others stood respectfully and respectfully on the side, and they didn't dare to take a breath, they were afraid that the apocalypse would be angry and angry at their ♀ eunuchs, and it was a common thing for the ministers to suffer, don't look at the emperor's happiness, often make jokes with the people around him, pull a few words, and often look amiable, once there is a big fire, it is not impossible to immediately shout and drag out the cane, people often say "accompany the king like a tiger" is what it means.

After reading it, Tianqi closed his eyes and thought about it, and said: "Collect all these tabloids, and then ask someone to analyze who did this, and by the way, inform all the officials in Beijing of the contents of this, and say that the day after tomorrow is the morning of the twelfth, and then I will see their true attitude." ”

Three days later, in the morning, because some people said that the Qianqing Palace had just died 2,000 people and was unlucky, and it needed to be renovated and let the monks and Taoist priests do some rituals, so Tianqi ordered a court meeting in the Huangji Palace. On the afternoon of the first day, Apocalypse had already received the opinions of many officials on the content of this tabloid, and in general, they were basically loyal, only a few people advised Apocalypse to take a break and not to be like those who hid in the shadows and could not see the light, which made Apocalypse feel a lot more relieved.

After the ministers finished their visit, Tianqi first asked the people from the Government Affairs Yuan, the Military Affairs Yuan, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to come out and express their attitudes, and let them explain clearly whether the content in the tabloids was right or wrong, where it was right and right, and where it was wrong and where ♀ it was wrong. At the same time, Apocalypse also sent Liu Zongzhou of the Holy Academy and Xu Guangqi of the Bo Academy to the court together, and asked them to share their views on the tabloids.

Speaking on behalf of the Government Council was the old minister Zhu Yanxi, who first stepped forward and said: "The minister just gave a recital a while ago, asking the emperor to calm the people's hearts, and there were many people who played at the same time, and everyone just wanted to calm down this incident as soon as possible. At that time, the emperor thought that someone would take the opportunity to make trouble, but the minister didn't think so, but now it seems that the emperor is indeed wise, and the ministers are absolutely impossible. Our government council thinks that this person who walks around the rumors in private is actually a person who harbors evil intentions, and the emperor does not need to pay attention to it. In order to punish the former and the latter, the Jinyi guard and the internal guard should be ordered to strictly investigate, and once it is found, they should be severely punished to set an example. ”

Seeing that this was a good opportunity to show his loyalty, Sun Chengzong of the Military Affairs Yuan motioned for Wang Yongguang to go up and speak on behalf of the Military Affairs Yuan. No matter what Sun Chengzong says, he is also the teacher of the apocalypse, and it is not easy for this teacher to grasp the proportions of the students' sycophants, and if the intensity of the shooting is not enough to achieve the expected effect, the emperor will be dissatisfied, and if he shoots too much, it will be decent. If you let others have a contemptuous heart because of this, the gain outweighs the loss, so Sun Chengzong handed over this glorious and not arduous task to Wang Yongguang.

Wang Yongguang had long been a little eager to show his hand in front of the ministers, and when he saw Sun Chengzong signaling to him, he immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, this person who spreads gossip must be a madman, and other ministers dare not say it, just say that the changes in the Ming army in this year can be described as earth-shaking." Thinking that the Jurchens had repeatedly succeeded in Liaodong, and regarded our Ming army as nothing, my Ming soldiers were all ashamed and inexplicable. Under the wise guidance of the emperor and meticulous care, my Ming soldiers were defeated in Ningyuan, Nanguan and Liubao, and took the order of the slave chief in Lianshan Pass. It's something that no one can erase! ”

Wang Yongguang's words were so loud that the ministers nodded Sun Chengzong was no exception, and the apocalypse was even more Longyan Dayue nodded again and again, and after thinking about it, he felt that the Metropolitan Procuratorate had not yet expressed his position, so he turned his head to look at Yang Lian and Gao Panlong.

Gao Panlong saw that the other two departments were not the number one to speak, so he looked at Yang Lian and motioned for Yang Lian to go, which made Yang Lian very embarrassed ♀ There is such a person in the world, when he talks about the shortcomings of others, it is to the point and into the wood, and the world calls it a poisonous tongue. If he wants to infinitely magnify and praise the advantages of others, he just can't say it with a stupid mouth, even if he is forced to say that the praise he says is no different from criticism and sarcasm, so generally self-aware people know that they are clumsy, and Yang Lian is such a person.

Originally, I didn't plan to speak, but seeing Gao Panlong's signal to Yang Lian, it was definitely wrong to only spread tabloids, but it was also a positive thing to be able to say it. The minister meant that many of the above words were misinterpreted by the emperor, and of course there were some things that had a certain amount of truth, such as negotiating with the Jurchens was suspected of being degraded to the noble, and meeting with the Mongols might put oneself in danger. There is also the emperor's imperial store, which did close many small businesses after it opened. ”

Everyone frowned when they heard this, and said in their hearts that we are here today specifically to explain the emperor, and the general direction is to infinitely praise the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, and scold the person who writes the tabloid for being shameless and ridiculous, the more impassioned the better, you Yang Lian actually helped the tabloid to talk and said that he had a certain truth, is it that you are promoted too quickly and burned your brain? There are a few people who are usually not used to seeing Yang Lian with a smile on the corner of their mouths, waiting for him to be scolded by the apocalypse, and some people wonder if this person will fall out of favor, and his official position may not be able to be promoted.

Who knew that Tianqi was not angry when he heard Yang Lian's words, and said with a smile: "Since the Government Affairs Yuan, the Military Affairs Yuan, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have all expressed their attitudes, I will also tell you about my attitude." At first, many of the things you said did not meet my requirements, and my requirements were to comment truthfully and objectively on what the tabloids said, and it didn't matter if they were wrong. Only Yang Lian said something more pertinent, and everyone else said something more flattering, but Lord Zhu and Lord Wang, you two should not be dissatisfied, what I want to say to you is flattery, I also like to listen to it, this is the truth, I believe that you adults are the same. ”

Seeing that Tianqi even liked to listen to flattery and said it, the ministers were in a good mood for a while, not that they felt that the emperor was too real, but that they understood that Tianqi was not as angry as everyone imagined now, and this emperor who was not angry was definitely much cuter than the angry emperor.

Sure enough, Apocalypse said, "Actually, I'm not very angry when I see the twelve big mistakes that this person has made for me, but what is there to be angry about when there are only twelve? I remember that Yang Lian convicted Wei Zhongxian of twenty-four major crimes, and Wei Zhongxian is still not trying his best to do things for the imperial court? It is said that some people want to send plaques to Wei Zhongxian and Dongchang to praise him, am I not as good as Wei Zhongxian? Of course, it would be false to say that I am not angry at all, but it is not the content of the tabloid that I am angry about, but the form of it. ”